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You just learned a valuable lesson, there is a regulatory burden to run a business. There are all sorts of issues like this regardless of whether you hire in Ca
by duped 5y ago
You just learned a valuable lesson, there is a regulatory burden to run a business. There are all sorts of issues like this regardless of whether you hire in California or any of the other 49 states.
Personally, I wish that the states didn't make it hard to do the right thing and pay appropriate payroll taxes and witholding for state income taxes. But unfortunately, there's a Byzantine process to register the business with the appropriate agencies just to set up payroll.
Stop making it hard to hire people and pay taxes!
- cyral 5y agoI really wish the US came up with a solution to this. It would help a lot with making it easier to start a business if there was one online portal where you could go to do this instead of registering for 5+ systems for a single state and being clueless about what your requirements are for other states (unless you can afford an accountant who is very familiar with it all).
- duped 5y ago> unless you can afford an accountant who is very familiar with it all I mean every business that isn't a pass-through LLC needs accounting/legal services. If you can't afford them then you probably can't afford to be in business yet. I think the process is dumb, and could be improved, but really it's not the job of the federal government to streamline any of this. I'd rather that states modernize their systems and regulations for modern businesses. I wish my home state did this (among other things) to attract startups, because its easy and has a high payoff. Unfortunately I think the incentives are broken for politicians and bureaucrats.